Beyond Empathy: Unveiling the Co-Creation Process of Emotions through a Wearable Device
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[1] National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Japón
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[2] Biometrics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Tokyo 108-8001, Japan
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[3] NEC Life Career, Ltd., Kanagawa 211-8601, Japan
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- Localización: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, ISSN-e 0718-1876, Vol. 19, Nº. 4, 2024, págs. 2714-2727
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Emotions fluctuate during the process of social interaction. Although the co-creation of emotions through organizational behavior has been discussed theoretically in existing research, there is no method to demonstrate how emotions are co-created. Instead, previous studies have paid much attention to empathy, in which a person’s emotions are contagious. In contrast to selfreport, which is a traditional method that can only assess emotions at a single point in time and adapts to empathy, biometric technology has made it possible to analyze emotional fluctuations over time. However, previous studies have focused only on understanding the emotional fluctuations of individuals separately. In the present study, we developed a system to measure the co-creation of emotions using a wearable device. The pulse rate was converted into valence as a positive–negative emotion, and the fluctuations in valence were analyzed by cross-correlation. We demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed system through triangulation by integrating biometrics with observation and self-report. The proposed system was verified to measure the co-creation of pair and group emotions using real-world data beyond laboratory settings. The present study contributes to business administration by proposing a critical concept for measuring the co-creation of emotions based on a constructionist approach.
